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About a month afterwards I noticed a great many l)ees coming 

 and going from this hive, and fancied that it might be dead and 

 being robbed. I opened it and was amazed. 



I do not he when I say that there were fully eight frames solid 

 with live bees, and seven frames full of brood. That long-sufifering 

 queen must have started at once laying to her full capacity, and the 

 hive was so warmly packed that a few bees were able to take care 

 cf a great deal of brood. This shows again the value of spring 

 protection. 



That queen had traveled a thousand miles in a mailing cage, 

 had been balled twice, had two colonies killed under her. been rob- 

 bed out once, and survived to build up one of the best colonies in 

 the yard out of a weak nucleus. I am going to use her for a 

 breeder this year. 



StoufYville, Ont., Can. 



A Discussion of Those Picture Grading Rules. 



BY THE SUBSCRIBERS. 



{Continued from July.) 



• ^ y^ \\'E.STERN subscriber, who does not want his name used, 

 ^„^\, takes an unfavorable view of the illustrations shown and 

 also criticises in a measure the rules adopted by the Col- 

 orado Association. He says in part as follows : 



"I am sorry to see you print above (juotations of honey, the 

 illustration you do as to grading. I suppose you use the eastern 

 grading rules as to basis for the cuts. Having graded nearly ac- 

 cording to Colorado rules for years, we cannot but think it puts 

 Colorado and western honey at a disadvantage in selling to dealers. 

 Your Fancy is exactly like Colorado Number 1. Your Number 1 

 is Colorado Number 3, and )^our Number 2 is Colorado culls. Re- 

 gardless of all rules. I would not case up and offer for sale, except 

 as culls, a sample like the one you call Number 'I. It is a lower 

 grade than ought to be offered on the market at all, as it is a dis- 

 appointment to any case buyer and to the poor customers who do 

 not feel they can afford 20c or 25c for a cake of honey. This would 

 naturally cost him 3 2c to 15c to let the dealer out whole, and the 

 purchaser would be paying about 50c a pound for what he buys of 

 real honey. 



"Then any dealer who has bought such Number 2 will not pay 

 much for Number 2 again, and our good Number 2 will be sold 

 accordingly. It creates fraud and mis-representation to have several 

 systems of grading in the country, and I had hoped the National 

 would revise its rules, so as to come nearer to the ordinarv run of 



